Eyes and Ears
Anthony Thwaite, 23 June 1988
The Silence in the Garden
by William Trevor.
Bodley Head, 204 pp., £9.95, June 1988,9780370312187 Show More
by William Trevor.
Bodley Head, 204 pp., £9.95, June 1988,
The Continuing Silence of a Poet: The Collected Short Stories of A.B. Yehoshua
Peter Halban/Weidenfeld, 377 pp., £11.95, June 1988,1 870015 14 2 Show More
Peter Halban/Weidenfeld, 377 pp., £11.95, June 1988,
“... twitching familiarity, are what fascinate him in his fastidious art. And – in case such analysis may make The Silence in the Garden sound too solemnly grim a work – I ought to say that the book is irradiated with not only comic moments but comic sequences, including some juxtapositions of a Church of Ireland bishop with a stotious boarding-house lady which ... ”